Join us on 9/29/20 from 6:45-7:45 EDT for our inaugural event featuring Grameen Foundation CEO Alex Counts!
Professor Alex Counts’s commitment to poverty eradication emerged when he was a Fulbright scholar in Bangladesh, where he trained under Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank. During his time in Bangladesh, Counts witnessed the development of innovative poverty solutions by Grameen Bank, eventually founded the Grameen Foundation, and became its President and CEO in 1997, after having worked in microfinance and poverty alleviation for ten years. Sparked by a $6,000 seed grant provided by Professor Yunus, the Grameen Foundation has grown to become a leading international humanitarian organization. Moreover, Counts has published four books and has written for The Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and The Miami Herald. Counts is a Cornell University graduate.